Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-03-28
on THE ELEVATED.
PREFERENCES AND WAYS OF WELL
KNOWN PASSENGERS.
Diradent Jay Gould, the Two Fields and
Russell ssge-Women's Way>-Funny
Ways OF the Absent Mind.d-A Pecui-
lar Physical Effect.

Russell ssGe-women's way>-Funny
Ways OF the Absent Mind.d-A Pecul-
lar Physical Effect.
Some Of the best known men in town have
decided preferences and characteristic WAYS
when they get aboard a train. Gen Grant
always used to try L. get the first seat in tn"
first car, aud he would sit watching the engi-
neer with the utmost interest Some Of his
friends thought that he took trat S'at 10
escape staring ewes. hut it wasn't . for he
once said that il seemed marvellous t. him
how an engineer could. by just little touch
that called Tor no apparent eNertion, control
n train quickly, and he liked to watch him
do II.
When JAY Could takes a train. as he very
often does he sinks into the first vacant seat
he s-SsS, and seems aS ditiiirnt and shy aS a
Young lover He must know that men are
constantly painting him out t. one another
hut he APPEARS never to notice it His son
frequently rides with him. hut they say hut
little to each other. Mr.. Could always seems
Ia be in a brown study, and no one would
think that he notices anvthing that is going
on. But the train men now know that lie
s,-S everything, and makes Il mental note OF
such things a> ne thinks worth suggesting To
Mir Hahn. He always has pleasant word
for such train men a he knows
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.
/ David Dudley Field seems never Ia tire of
looking out at the rapidly changing panorama
of front windows He frequently will ride
down town or up town, for he walks one way
each day. without taking his ewes from the
outside sI-.'taclr Cyrus W Field, on the
ha, l.s,l. tgh t,
~, if Their, is any one on h"arl whom he
knows. He usually finds some Oi,e, and then
talks IN his voluhe, earnest and sometimes
impasSonei manner EvelNh-iy with Nh"m
Nj Field talks >-.niS to H. greatly Interested,
for he l. one Of the few men who talk much.
rapid ' and earnestly, who does not bore.
Russell Sage ON thu. other hand, who can
stump, in excited moments the eNpert.~t
st.ruEraph.r deVotr> his fifteen minutes on
the elevated To the daily papers Sag reads
the market reports through. glances with the
quick eve of an exchange reader at the head
lines of the news items, runs over the editor
ial page like II toh"ggau ON a chute and then
ia>he> The paper nervou>ly on the floor. lie
frequently thus gN~ through three or four
palp,rS uu IA trip, and the conductor on has
car usually gets the daily papers for nothing
Nine women out of ten sit on the e.ge of
the seat though getting ready To jump IN
caSr anything happens, and you can always
tell the first tune auyhody is riding by the
stralne frightened look he assumes, and his
nervous Clut,hin. at the seat railing. Ele-
va,.Si trains are seldom used for pleasure
trips Everybniy who rides has some bust
hes, IN view or home to reach at the terminus
hut there WAS one couple who role from Har
lem 20 the Battery tor pleasure. \ young
fellow who has IL small truck farm near IRE
mont was married. and he wanted to take a
little honeymoon He couldn't spare the time
10 go to cuney island, and h.. hadn't been bt>
low Harlem bridge. nor had his bride, for
some years Neither Of them had ever seen
the elevated road, and ~ they d~'idt-i to take
their wedding trip on II. After they were
married they drove TO Harlem bridge and
there took the train 10 the Battery. They |
waIdrrea around awhile. went I" restaurant |
and had some oysters. and then returned, |
content and delighted. That trip meant as
much for them a. Niagara or Washington |
dos for others, and II cost less than "a dollar. |
Gatemen have often funny experiences |
with absent minded persons. At the Park |
place station not long ago II man bought a |
ticket and received some change. He had a |
newly lighted cigar between his fingers. A |
he pasNri through TIE gate he threw the cigar |
into the ticket box, the change into the spit |
Coon, and put the ticket between his lips. The |
gataInan first thought he was drunk or crazy, |
and lie spoke sharply 10 the man. Ii was a
perfect case of absent mirdednesS. The man |
when spoken 20 started rs though awakened |
from sleep and was both mortified and as |
loniShed when the gatenan pointed TO the
smoking stump IN the ticket box and 10 the |
ticket between his lips. Then the change |
was fiShei out Of the spittoon. He had i'll !
tended. Of course tn toss the cigar away, put |
the ticket in the box and the change in his |
pocket. Il shall walk off the dock VET" he |
said. and think | am on the way 10 my |
office
A PECULIAR EFFECr-
\ peculiar effect of riding on the elevated |
which trainmen have noticed il that II seems |
10 neutralize the effect of alcoholic stimulant. |
Not of course, i'll every case, but III very |
MANY Many time, men have boarded the |
train with wobhling legs and head. far |
gone a. tn make it doubtful whether they |
should be permitted Ia ride, but the employees |
Say that in nine cases out Of ten a ride, say |
from the Battery TO Fiftv-ninth street will
strairbteu a man out as thoroughly as a cold |